All about H. Hatterr / G.V. Desani ; introduction by Anthony Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desani, G. V. (Govindas Vishnoodas), 1909-2000.

Contributor:

Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biographical fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Humorous stories.

novels.

Humorous fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Physical Description:

316 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

New York Review books ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2007]

Summary:

Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting seven Oriental cities, he consults with seven sages, each of whom specializes in a different aspect of 'Living.' Each teacher delivers himself of a great 'Generality,' each great Generality launches a new great 'Adventure,' from each of which Hatter escapes not so much greatly edified as by the skin of his teeth. The book is a comic extravaganza, but as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, 'it is the language that makes the book. . . . It is not pure English; it is like Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kipling, gloriously impure.'

Notes:

"Based on the [1972] Penguin edition, adding the footnotes at the end, comprising the final revisions."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

Cited in:

Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 2

Other Format:

Online version: Desani, G.V. (Govindas Vishnoodas), 1909- All about H. Hatterr.

ISBN:

9781590172421

1590172426

OCLC:

148857887

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